Up-hill
-landscape is a metaphor for a spiritual journey -
Rossetti uses landscape in a similar way
- 'The road" is symbolic of a life's path.
- ' up hill' - struggle and suffering
- ' night/dark' are a metaphor for darkness/ doubt
- ' inn' place of refuge from doubts and insecurities
- 'other wayfarers' - people who have already made the journey
- 'that door' - the division between living and the dead.
Power and control
- coverging - lowering own language to fit into a friendship group
- diverging - raise language - authority/ disapproval
Mock essay
Explore the ways Rossetti presents attitudes towards death in this poem and others you have studied.
1) shut out - "the door was shut' - keeping her away from her place of happiness - imaginatio, place of comfort/ gates to heaven.
2) 'echo' - "watch the slow door That opening, letting in, lets out no more"- barrier to other world(heaven)
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